However this is not the biggest human rights issue in Africa, no, both Hillary Clinton and David Cameron have slammed Nigeria and threatened her with reduction in AID in recent days if they don't mend their ways.

It is a clear condemnation of the bombings and it does not try to promote any other agenda.

Pull the other one, LRO. From the Title to the conclusion, the post is trying to make an ideological point.

Well merry xmas to you too

Trace of sarcasm in the title?

Says Boko Haram, setting off bombs in churches and elsewhere that kill 32 people and injure many more. God is love, Allah is merciful, compassion is at the heart of every great religion, boom boom boom. Screams, agony, blood, death, sorrow, loss. What a nice present.

More sarcasm, to end with the sarcastic conclusion and not in any sense a plea:

Peace, love, good will.

Seems atheists can't resist trying to put the boot in, from your rude comment to the post you cite as atheistic clarity.

And it's that attitude that tells me that atheists will not (are not) living under the precepts of peace, love and good will either.

And that's ignoring the point that murder is in direct violation of the Christian ethos, and the simplistic approach of lumping the massive and disproportionate attacks on Christian Churches and Christians by Islam Fundamentalists as somehow the fault of the Christian religion.

Do you think you are acting like a nice person when you make comments like this?

And yes, there is an ideological point that religion poisons everything. Religion was the sole cause of these outrages. And I note andrei only seemed concerned with the dead in churches, but not all the victims of these attackes were in churches, nor were they all christions.

And it's that attitude that tells me that atheists will not (are not) living under the precepts of peace, love and good will either.

Show me the atheists who fly aeroplanes in to buildings.

Show me the atheists who are outraged and threaten murder when someone mocks Darwin. Or Hitchens.

Show me the atheists who insist on conformity at times like Xmas.

We simply get on with living our lives as best we can without the crutch of faith.

Do you think andrei was a nice person when he sneeringly derided the hopes and aspirations of his fellow humans?

I have no love of any form of theocratic law. And yet you sem to think it OK to support regimes that impose death penalties for simply being born homosexual. That, in my opinion, makes you a not very nice person.

And rather than it being a case of "modern" secularists are trying to impose their values on the country from afar. we are the ones standing up for human rights whilst the christians cheer on the islamic lions.

It is interesting to see that the things that LRO condemns all religions for, are actually things committed by one particular dogmatic religion that should have no place in civilised societies.I, of course, refer to Islam.While the Waikato Times gave the usual attack on Israel in a news story today, perhaps it should have printed this fine peace from Fraser nelson of the UK spectator, which highlights the fruits of the Arab Spring for many.http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7516508/we-cant-ignore-the-persecution-of-christians-in-the-middle-east.thtml